documentary - Video - Gangsters Inc. - www.gangstersinc.org2024-03-29T15:10:19Zhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/feed/tag/documentaryDocumentary | Millennials in Mexico - born into the world of drug cartelshttps://gangstersinc.org/video/documentary-millennials-in-mexico-born-into-the-world-of-drug-car2023-04-15T07:00:21.000Z2023-04-15T07:00:21.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11028349899?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap">What’s life like for young people born into the world of Mexican drug cartels? The documentary shows the everyday life of a group of young "sicarios” or hired assassins. The film follows young men as they drift around the Mexican state of Sinaloa, trying to come to terms with growing up, their work for the drug cartel and their aspirations for the future. The film shows "Los Plebes", as young people are called in northern Mexico and provides a glimpse into lives that seem predetermined by external circumstances. Too often, there is no way out of the spiral of violence for these young cartel members.</span></p>
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<p>In this investigation, we follow the food fraud brigades and reveal how little we know about what we’re eating.</p>
<p>This documentary was first released in 2021.</p>
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<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Education levels are low, the jobless rate is high, and the threat from the terror group Boko Haram is omnipresent. Zinder is the second-largest city in Niger. In the impoverished neighborhood of Kara Kara, many young men join gangs known as "palais”, or "palaces”. Bawa used to be member of such a gang and talks openly about his crimes: one-to-one interviews that pull no punches and at the same time, show how difficult it is to come to terms with one’s own guilt. The scars on his body are a constant reminder of that. Today he’s a father and earns a living riding a motorbike taxi. He’s also a member of a ”palais” of adult weightlifters with a bizarre name: Hitler. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Siniya Boy also lifts weights in the Hitler gang. He appears at the start of the film with the flag of his "palais”. When asked why his life has turned out this way, Siniya Boy has a one-word answer: "Education”. The acute lack of education in Kara Kara also explains the choice of name for the weightlifting gang: Hitler, says Siniya Boy, is a strong guy from America that doesn’t let anyone push him around. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">The camera tells its story through the lives of three people. It is there at the prison fence, where Siniya Boy chats with three detained members of his "palais”; and in the red-light district when a sex worker shows her scars - scars that are far worse than those of the men in the film. And this is another of the documentary’s powerful messages: behind every man who has suffered violence, there’s a woman who has suffered even more.</span></p>
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<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">From extortion to drug dealing, the Ndrangheta is involved in many businesses around the world. Heavily armed, the organization has a stranglehold on the Calabrian economy. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">We meet the rare and brave few that are fighting against the organisation and accompany the police on the raid of a port and the arrest of a ’Godfather’. A look at the Mafia which has a stranglehold on Southern Italy. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">This documentary was first released in 2015. </span></p>
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<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">In Erdoğan’s Turkey, Can Dündar is public enemy number one. After he uncovered illegal Turkish arms shipments to Syria in 2015, the President said he was a terrorist, and personally called for a life sentence in prison for the journalist. Can Dündar fled to Germany following an attempt on his life during his trial. Since then, he has continued to defend his homeland against the autocrat’s lies, promoting freedom of speech from exile. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Dündar meets the journalist Anabel Hernández, who’s been investigating drug-related crime and corruption in Mexico for more than 20 years, publishing numerous books and articles on the subject. She is best-known for highlighting close links between the government and the drug clans -- ground-breaking research that almost cost her her life. Luckily, she wasn’t at home on the day 11 armed men showed up to shoot her dead. She knew then that she would have to leave her home country. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Not that she doesn’t return from time to time, under tight security, to continue her work and see her family. Can Dündar meets her in exile and then again, during one of these highly dangerous trips back home. He poses the pivotal question: what’s driving her to take this huge risk again and again?</span></p>
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</ul></div>Can the global network of organized crime be destroyed?https://gangstersinc.org/video/can-the-global-network-of-organized-crime-be-destroyed2022-04-27T06:57:53.000Z2022-04-27T06:57:53.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10442521077?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string"><a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/mafia-and-crime-groups" target="_blank">Organized crime</a> can hold sway over political and economic institutions. Illegal business is growing more profitable every day. Can something be done to take down this global criminal network? </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Corruption and drug trafficking are no longer just local problems. International groups working with terrorist organizations and politicians are ruthlessly spreading violence and endangering innocent lives. Complex infrastructures enable them to evade capture and punishment. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string"><a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/drug-cartels" target="_blank">Drug smuggling</a> is a competitive global business. Drug smugglers transport their goods from Latin America to <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/europe-overview" target="_blank">Europe</a>. From international money laundering to transnational murder for hire, we see the devastation underground business leaves in its wake. Murders, explosions, and targeted attacks - they affect not only criminals, but also their families, witnesses, journalists, and other innocent victims. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">According to FBI and Europol documents, every country on earth now has its own criminal groups and <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/drug-cartels" target="_blank">cartels</a>. They are also gaining a stronger footing in Germany. Take drug trafficking, for example: Germany is a well-organized market and central transport hub for opiates along the Balkan route. South America directly serves the U.S. market. Anyone attempting to expose these groups is placing her or his life on the line. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">According figures from the World Bank, organized crime groups spend half of their annual two trillion dollar annual profits bribing politicians across the globe. Those operating with full cooperation from the authorities are behaving more like terror organizations: They use fear and terror, murder and manslaughter. But using the global financial system for money laundering is nothing new. The state earns money through taxes and terror groups get rich in the process. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Drugs and money are not the only things being transported. Smuggling people has also become a lucrative business for organized crime, bringing in about $150 billion each year. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Could conditions like those in <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/russian-mafia-overview" target="_blank">Russia</a> develop elsewhere, where politicians, secret services and criminals share common interests? Could this even happen in once stable democracies like the USA or core European states? Is there a way out? Or are law enforcement agencies powerless to stop them?</span></p>
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</ul></div>The Italian Mafia's New Industry: Trafficking Toxic Waste & Poisoning the Landhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/the-italian-mafia-s-new-industry-trafficking-toxic-waste-poisonin2022-04-02T06:30:15.000Z2022-04-02T06:30:15.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10256300478?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">An investigation into the <a href="https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/blogs/italian-organized-crime" target="_blank">mafia</a>’s illegal traffic in toxic waste in Italy. It’s an industry worth billions of euros a year, with many businesses happy to pay the camorra to dump toxic waste in the countryside rather than disposing of it safely. Until recently, there were virtually no penalties for toxic dumping. But decades of illegal dumping haven’t just poisoned the land and water. Child cancer rates are unusually high and the air is toxic. This documentary was first released in 2018.</span></p>
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<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">In 2012, HSBC nearly lost its license to operate in the US for laundering the money of the Mexican and Columbian drug cartels. Criminal charges were filed and HSBC’s executives hauled before a Senate committee. But George Osborne, UK’s then Chancellor of the Exchequer, wrote to his counterpart in America and to the Chairman of the Federal Reserve to plead for leniency. He claimed that if HSBC received a harsh punishment, it would have serious repercussions on the world’s financial and economic stability. The letter worked and HSBC was fined 2 billion euros. The equivalent of one month’s profits. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">As the center of international finance moves to Asia, HSBC is in prime position. It is the most Chinese of Western banks and the most European of Chinese banks. Protected by London, blessed by Beijing, who would dare attack it? This documentary was first released in 2017.</span></p>
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</ul></div>Married To The Calabrian Mafia: The 'Ndrangheta Wives Who Exposed Their Husbands | Documentaryhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/married-to-italy-s-most-feared-mafia-the-ndrangheta-wives-who-exp2022-02-02T13:19:11.000Z2022-02-02T13:19:11.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10065243489?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Lea Garofalo, 35. She went to the police with details of the numerous crimes of her Mafioso husband, Carlo Cosco. In revenge, Cosco kidnapped and murdered her before dissolving her body in acid. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Maria Concetta Cacciola, 31. Another ‘Ndrangheta wife. In August 2010, she drank a bottle of acid after also speaking to the police about the crimes of the mob family she had tried, but failed, to escape. Her death remains clouded in mystery. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Then there’s Cacciola’s cousin, Giuseppina Pesce, the daughter of clan boss Salvatore Pesce. She also became a state witness, even helping to put some of her family members behind bars. </span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">By rebelling against their clan, these women dealt a severe blow to organised crime. For in the ‘Ndrangheta, the largest and most feared of the Italian mafias, women never betray their families. Blood ties and ancestral ties still hold tight. And – as the film reveals – the actions of Lea, Maria Concetta and Giuseppina have set a dangerous precedent.</span></p>
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</ul></div>Detroit Mob Confidential | docu directed by Al Profit & Scott Burnsteinhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/detroit-mob-confidential-docu-directed-by-al-profit-scott-burnste2022-01-22T15:39:43.000Z2022-01-22T15:39:43.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10033735876?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>In-depth documentary on the Detroit Mafia family directed by Al Profit and Scott Burnstein. </p></div>Organized crime in Montenegro: Sweeping up corruptionhttps://gangstersinc.org/video/organized-crime-in-montenegro-sweeping-up-corruption2021-12-07T10:15:16.000Z2021-12-07T10:15:16.000ZGangsters Inc.https://gangstersinc.org/members/GangstersInc<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9887599497?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">For decades, Montenegro has been unable to get organized crime under control. Rampant corruption is hindering development in the country, which is a candidate for EU membership. Now, Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic is attempting a political awakening. At the end of 2020, a wave of protests swept Zdravko Krivokapic to the very top of Montenegro’s government. Until then, the university professor had not been involved in politics. He vowed to finally do something about the rampant nepotism and corruption that had spread before and during the rule of long-term President Milo Dukanovic. Dukanovic’s supporters believed they would soon bring Krivokapic onto their side. But so far, that hasn’t happened, and the prime minister is cleaning the country up. A report by Miodrag Soric.</span></p></div>